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When Nottoway Plantation went up in flames last month, the destruction of a place rooted in the nation's history of ...
Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear what the loss of the Nottoway Plantation House means to descendants of people enslaved ...
The recent fire at Nottoway Plantation, which reduced the “big house” to ashes, serves as a stark reminder of the complexities we navigate to uncover the truth of our history.
A Louisiana family is still working to pick up the pieces of their lives after a fire completely destroyed their home, and ...
Pastor Dale Flowers said he never visited Nottoway, which was finished in 1859 in White Castle.
The founder of a ghost touring company received death threats after people on the internet blamed an allegedly possessed doll ...
Roughly an hour away, another plantation is working to honor the history of those once enslaved. When Tammika Thompson first heard about the fire at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation on May 15 ...
When Tammika Thompson first heard about the fire at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation on May 15, she felt a surge of energy in her body as she recognized why the name was so familiar. Her father ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories?
Firefighters from Baton Rouge battle a blaze as flames burst from the roof of the Nottoway Plantation in White Castle, La., on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Credit - Michael Johnson—The Advocate/AP ...
Louisiana, like much of the rest of the ... Many people, myself included, see the Nottoway Plantation as little more than a former slave labor camp. A place where crimes against humanity went ...